When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? As a child, I memorized “The Tale of Custard the Dragon,” by Ogden Nash, for an English class. I remember being taken in by the sounds and whimsy of the poem. I began...
Small Press Interview Series: aforementioned productionsa conversation between Erica Charis-Molling and co-founder Randolph PfaffErica Charis-Molling: Let’s start at the beginning. How did the press get started?Randolph Pfaff: First of all, thanks for including us in...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? In middle school I remember reading Shakespeare for the first time when my class performed Romeo and Juliet. I was really taken with the sonic beauty of the language, and I feel...
Do you have a writing routine? A favorite time or place to write? I can’t really say I have an established and predesigned writing routine. As an artist, I respond to my inspirations, my thought and intuition. Often my creativity is triggered by headlines from...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I first got really interested in poetry when Ms. Stanley, my sophomore English teacher in high school, introduced us to people like Langston Hughes, Robert Frost and Gwendolyn...
our interview with No GLykon & meagan masterman of reality handsNo Glykon and Meagan Masterman run a Somerville-based literary journal called Reality Hands, as well as Clouds and Other Louds, a festival of poetry and fiction readings. This year’s festival will be...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? A long time ago, at the university, I had already taken all my required courses for Computer Science. I spent the last year in all arts classes, including Creative...
Available now from Indie Bound When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover you wanted to write poems? I was born into a family of avid readers and learned to read quite early, before I went to school. My mother read to me every night when I was small. A...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I loved the beats in high school (of course!), but I didn’t start writing poetry until college. I really wanted to be a novelist, or write a short story, but I could never get...
Available now on Timothy Gager's website When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover you wanted to write poems? More or less in High School. I was a big music listener as a kid—it drew me in and that was the age of the singer songwriter. Lyrics told...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I compare my poetry encounters in middle and high school with being forced to swallow regular tablespoons of cod liver oil. I was told it was good for my literary health; all I...
Available Now from Press 53 When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I first came upon poetry in elementary school, some rhyming ditties I guess, and then, in what used to be called Junior High School, I remember having...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I first encountered poetry in middle school. Honestly, I don’t remember why, but I decided to write a poem for one of those middle school poetry anthologies. My sixth grade...
Now Available on Amazon When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? Like most people, my first encounter with poetry was in middle school when the curriculum demanded it. But my first time experiencing poetry as an art...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover you wanted to write poems? Children encounter poetry quite naturally through nursery rhymes and schoolyard games. As a child, those rhymes are full of rules and rule-breaking, magic and play. Poetry has always...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? My 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Van Stone, was a poetry lover. She made us memorize poems and act them out, even making props during our art classes. I remember doing a puppet of a...
Available now from Finishing Line Press When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover you wanted to write poems? I first encountered poetry through Dr. Seuss books, and through Mother Goose nursery rhymes. I started writing poems when I was about eight...
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems? I first “discovered” poetry when I was a senior in high school, although I remember my mother reading me poems when I was a child. I had a great teacher, who’ stop at nothing to...
Available now from Nixes Mate When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover you wanted to write poems? Probably I first encountered poetry in the form of nursery rhymes my mother read aloud to me. She was a reading teacher and an avid reader who would...
10+ Questions! is a series in which we catch up with poets who have been featured in our programming. Rage Hezekiah was featured at Mass Poetry’s U35 reading in September 2016 and has led several workshops at Student Day of Poetry.
10+ Questions is a series in which we catch up with poets who have been featured in our programming. Curtis Perdue was featured at Mass Poetry’s U35 reading in October 2014.